Charlie Kerins

Charlie Kerins (23 January 1918-1 December 1944) was an Irish Republican Army leader who was executed by the United Kingdom for the murder of a policeman in 1944.

Biography
Charlie Kerins was born in Caherina, County Kerry, Ireland on 23 January 1918. He worked at a radio business in Tralee, and he was sworn into the Irish Republican Army in 1940, taking part in the terrorist campaign against the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland from 1942 to 1944 during World War II. On 9 September 1942, a British policeman was gunned down outside of his home by the IRA, and Kerins was arrested by the Garda Siochana in 1944 for his terrorist activities. On 2 October 1944, he was sentenced to death by hanging for murder, and he was hanged on 1 December 1944.